考研英语模拟试题[12]Simulated Test

High school and college students today are pushed so much in the direction of specialization _____ little time is left for the further development of the basic reading skills initiated in earlier years.

As I spoke I observed a large dog lying on the sunny grass beneath _____ its ears as if about to bark.

Lying _____ far back in the mountains, the coal had to be hauled from a deep valley.

A man should never be ashamed to own he as been in the wrong, _____ is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

The funnylooking man whom the girl met on the street of Prinston was _____ Albert Einstein.

Now scientists cannot realize _____ soon that existing scientific knowledge is not nearly so complete,certain and unalterable as many textbooks seem to imply.

Many of the successful men, had they been able to choose for themselves, would have selected some quite different professions _____ they have made fortunes.

Some people hold that, since we live in a moneyoriented society, the average individual cares little about solving _____ problems.

In digital electronics, signals are broken down into thousands, maybe millions, _____ ,which are encoded as zeroes and ones.

Not only could one(A) accident in a single nuclear power station spread so much(B) radioactivity as(C) a thousand Hiroshima atom bombs, but(D) the radioactive waste from these stations is extremely dangerous.

Even if(A) agriculture undergoes(B) a drastic change to meet the needs(C) of the new situation, the country will starve(D).

Owing to(A) the present economic situation, the welfare department, as well as the other social services, will have(B) their(C) budget cut.(D)

Hamburgers and hot dogs, eaten(A) all across(B) that country, are(C) sometimes called typical(D) American good.

Everybody considered it(A) a pity to have missed(B) the performance. I would rather(C) go to(D) see it.

Television is another(A) major instrument(B) of communication, to permit(C) us to see as well as(D) to hear the performer.

We regretsaying(A) that a recent rise of material cost of the said(B) product has necessitated a price adjustment on our part, which is(C) made against(D) our own will.

Many more babies now survive infancy, grow up and become parents, and many more adults are living into(A) old age so that(B) population is being added(C) at both ends.(D)

The fact that so many highschool graductes now continue their education suggests(A) that there should be(B) a(C) high value on(D) college in American life.

Alfred Nobel worked alongaside(A) his father, and by 1850, when he was 17, Alfred acquired(B) most of his father's knowledge of(C) and enthusiasm for(D) chemistry.

The population of Pennsylvania increased from 50 000 in 1730 to more than 200 000 in 1763, ue _____ to the thousands of Scotch Irish.

We object to the idea that it is military force that should be _____ in settling international disputes.

He failed to completely achieve the aim _____ by the teacher at the beginning of the term.

No modern industrial enterprise can _____ for a moment without rules and set procedures.

We must take part in physical labor in order to _____ ourselves more closely with the working people.

Whether an operation should be performed in this case _____ very much on the patient's gereral condition.

The normal food _____ of man depend in part on the amount of external work he does.

The drugs must _____ in every way to the standards set up by the government.

The red spots first appeared on the forearm and then extended _____ to the shoulder.

Digestion _____ the necessary chemical changes in the food which must occur before it can b absorbed.

Any work performed by the body, no matter how small the amount, _____ energy, whether one is at work or asleep.

Issan Newton, a British scientist, who lived over 300 years ago, said that he saw _____ than others becauce he stood on the shoulders of giants.

Malaria,it is true, has been practically _____ in thirteen countries, inchuding the United States, and is under attack in many thers.

After the seventeenth century, the majority of Harvard graduates entered professions _____ the ministry.

In the United States educational system, intermediate school is the _____ stage between the primary grades and high school.

The streams, often petty and insignificant during dry weather, become raging _____ during a storm.

When coal, the _____ of plants, is burent, chemical energy is changed into heat energy.

Scientists study the _____ between parents and their babies to better understand how infants learn.

As no two speakers of a language speak _____ ,difference wiil be found in the pronunciation of the speakers.

Some people _____ in part the defeat of the revolution in France and Germany to the English diplomacy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By saying that the U.S.“was now able to take its place among the arbitors of the world's destinies”(the second sentence in paragraph 1), the author means that the U.S. _____ .

By calling it an“informal empire”(the second sentence in paragraph 2), these revisionists meant that the U.S. _____ .

The Roosevelt example is used to _____ .

The expression“risk being eclipsed on the world stage”(the last sentence in paragraph 3)means _____ .

Before the year 1988, neuroscientsts _____ .

The pupose of the experiments with hamsters was to _____ .

What might be one of the implications of the findings?

Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

The writer's attitude toward nuclear energy is _____ .

Some people claim that nuclear energy is essential because _____ .

Which of the following statements does the writer support?

The function of the last sentence is to _____ .

The main idea of the passage is that _____ .

The factor which does NOT account for the dying sense of honor is _____ .

The inference we can make from this passage is that _____ .

The story of John Stubbs is told to convey the idea that _____ .

According to the passage, the way we dress _____ .

From the third paragraph of the passage, we can conclude that young adults tend to believe that certain types of clothing can _____ .

The word“precedents”(para 4)probably refers to _____ .

According to the passage, many career women find themselves in difficult situations because _____ .

 

 

 

 

 

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